Beloved Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain would have turned 55 today. ThisBenFlanagan recalls his first concert, when he was nine years old: Nirvana, in Birmingham's Boutwell Auditorium, on Wed., Dec. 1, 1993. Were you there? Check it out:
My first concert was Nirvana at Boutwell Auditorium in Birmingham when I was 9. It was a school night.
One evening, our family gathered in our kitchen like we normally would, when my brother’s outburst in the corner froze me stiff. He spotted three tickets stuck behind a refrigerator magnet. They said “Nirvana. Wed, Dec. 1, 1993. 8 p.m. Boutwell Auditorium. General Admission.” For context, three years prior to seeing Nirvana, he gave my brother and me permission to see our first R-rated movie in the theater, none other than “Terminator 2: Judgment Day” on what we can’t help but short-list as one of the greatest days of our young lives, perhaps now second-fiddle to this show.
After first opener, a garage/prog rock-sounding band called Come I barely remember other than the lead singer’s tilted head screaming into the mic, The Breeders, whose single “Cannonball” was in regular MTV rotation hit the stage and “rocked” according to Graham. “When Nirvana took the stage, they rocked even harder, playing through so many hits and songs I hadn’t heard of and would later come to appreciate even more when I got older,” he said.
Maybe not as much, but I definitely remember seeing some moshing and crowd-surfing, even some brave dudes hopping on stage and sprinting past Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic to leap into the first few rows of the crowd before security could nab them. It’s probably best we kept our distance. We certainly weren’t fearful of the environment, but we stuck out like some young sore thumbs.
Graham was right. It felt special. Sure, it does 27 years later, but even in the moment, we were awestruck they were in our town. He said if and when Nirvana comes up in conversation, he wears that experience as a badge of honor that he saw them in sixth grade on a school night, which he calls “a complete credit to our dad.”
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